6/4/2022

Mission

Sentiment Analysis

Sentiment Analysis

Example Text Sentiment Score (VADER[2])
According to Dirk Nowitzki, reporters should pay no attention to Jason Terry after games -0.382
[Draymond Green in 2010] “the world is flat fool” -0.440
Stephen Curry is 5th All-Time in career True Shooting Percentage at 62.0%, and 1st All-Time among guards 0.421
[Murphy] Serge Ibaka interrupts DeRozan’s scrum to ask what he got the team for Christmas. Told nothing, Ibaka says he’s going to go play with John Wall. 0.026

Sentiment Example

  • “Who else is worried about Chris Paul being 1 year older having missed major portions of the season due to injury 3 of the last 4 years?” - Chris Paul (2020)

Sentiment Example

  • “another excellent highlight video from court chornicles showcasing kevin durant.” - Kevin Durant (2010)

Modeling

Important Features

Important Features

  • WAR
  • Points Per Game
  • WAR (regular season)
  • Sentiment!!

Results

  • Model was able to predict the MVP winner with 77% accuracy (2010-2022)
  • With average deviation from actual rank of 0.41

Results for the 2022 NBA season!

Player Rank Predicted Rank Sentiment Score
Nikola Jokic 1 1✅ 0.94
Joel Embiid 2 2✅ -0.22
Giannis Antetokounmpo 3 3✅ 1.00

Full Predictions

Future

  • Test out model midseason
  • Add text sentiment analysis of famous critics like Stephen A Smith
  • Use comments instead of headlines
  • Comedy scores
  • Account for jargon

Resources Used For Presentaiton